Updated at 10:38 a.m., Monday, January 29, 2007
Dissect digital media works at free UH presentation
Advertiser Staff
As part of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Spring 2007 Speakers Series, David Goldberg will make the presentation "Virtual Camouflage: Tracking Culture In the Jungles of Contemporary Digital Media" from noon to 1:20 p.m. Wednesday in Burns Hall, room 2121.The audiovisual presentation will look at two recent pieces of digital work: Nickelodeon's "Backyardigans" computer-animated series, and Japanese animator Frogman's "S-Guy and the Family Stone." Goldberg looks at how these artifacts of contemporary digital entertainment culture translate analog pop culture such as Latin American music and dance in the case of the "Backyardigans," and African-American R&B music and iconography in the case of "S-Guy."
The presentation is free.
